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Helvey claims he was about to use a urinal in the public restroom when Schindler tapped him on the shoulder. Turning around, Helvey supposedly saw Schindler standing with his pants down and his penis exposed...
...lest either Clinton or the bigoted defenders of the status quo think that ignoring the question of gay troops will make it disappear, the story of Allen Schindler should make them think again. Schindler, a 22-year-old naval radio operator, was brutally murdered by a fellow sailor a month after he revealed his homosexuality to his commanding officer...
...Schindler's story is unique only in the magnitude of its horror. The harassment he experienced while he was awaiting a discharge for being gay is hardly unusual. But Schindler's punishment for his sexual orientation was death: On the night of October 27, 1992, at a U.S. naval base in Japan, Airman Apprentice Terry Helvey fatally battered him against the toilet fixtures of a public restroom...
...Schindler's body was mutilated beyond recognition. According to news reports, his head was crushed, his ribs were smashed and his penis was lacerated. His mother was able to identify his disfigured body only by the tattoos on his arms...
...Francisco four sailors and two Marines were sentenced to a year in jail after they pleaded guilty to beating a homosexual man lured from a bar, and seaman Terry Helvey was charged by the Navy in the bludgeoning murder of gay shipmate Allen Schindler near the U.S. naval base at Sasebo, Japan. Thus, even as opponents of Clinton's easing of restrictions against gay military personnel raised the specter of unrestrained homosexuals running rampant through their ranks, more tangible threats to military discipline were coming from the straight and narrow-minded already in uniform...